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Often appears with: private property distribution · mixed constitution · forms of government · enslavement of allies · conquest, plunder, and captives · civil war and rebellion · civil discord origins
Usually: argument (1) · the fall of the great (1) · detachment (1)
After discord, Plato says gold-and-silver people keep virtue while iron-and-brass pursue money; they eventually compromise by distributing land to individuals and enslaving former allies, producing a mixed regime between aristocracy and oligarchy.
all places are causes of hatred and war. This the Muses affirm to be the stock from which discord has sprung, wherever arising; and this is their answer to us. Yes, and we may assume that they answer truly. Why, yes, I said, of course they answer truly; how can the Muses speak falsely? And what do the Muses say next? When discord arose, then the two races were drawn different ways: the iron and brass fell to acqu…